With Apple's latest terms of service for the iPhone 4 OS, a lot of uncertainty has arisen around supporting development tools for app development such as Appcelerator. As a user of Appcelerators Titanium Developer tool, I was concerned about the future of the application. I spoke with Scott Schwarzhoff about the questions that were on my mind.

DZone: Could you
explain the new Apple Terms of Service to people who haven't heard about it?

Scott: The Terms of Service in question
relate to Apple's accepting applications written in its preferred languages,
Objective-C and iPhone OS webkit Javascript. Our technology uses webkit
Javascript and produces native applications, so we feel that we not only comply
under the letter of the terms, but the spirit as well.

DZone: And were you shocked
when you heard about Apple's new TOS?

Scott: It was certainly concerning for
many of our users. We have since had all of our applications accepted, so
we're feeling quite confident that Appcelerator Titanium users will be
ok.

DZone: It's comforting, as an
Appcelerator user, that you reached out to your community straight away. Was the
feedback from users very supportive?

DZone: So, are you able to let
us know if the Appcelerator platform can be used with Apple's iPhone OS4?

Scott: It’s our belief that we are
fully in compliance with iPhone OS 4.0 ToS as we interpret them. Moreover,
applications are being accepted every day under the new
terms.

DZone:What makes your
approach different to allow this?

Scott: Applications are written in
webkit Javascript, compile to native Objective-C, and we only work with publicly
available APIs from Apple. We also compile into native Xcode projects and
all of our applications make use of native iPhone/iPad user experience and API
functionality.